stryd

From Dutch strijd.

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stryd (plural stryde)

1. struggle
2. game

Borrowed from Middle English strete, from Old English strǣt (“a road, a town-road, a street, a paved road, high road”), from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /sdrɨːd/, [strɨːd]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /sdriːd/, [striːd]
• Rhymes: -ɨːd

stryd f (plural strydoedd, not mutable)

1. street
   • 2018, Adwaith, “Osian”, in Melyn:

     Clywes i est ti mas ar y dre / Ar y strydoedd tan y bore

     I heard you went out on the town / On the streets until the morning

• stryd fawr

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “stryd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies